"Anyone who wants simple, pat stories should buy another author's product. The real universe ain't that way, and neither are my fictive ones."

-- David Brin

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“Where I came from, the idea of going into show business was just ridiculous; in fact I didn't tell anybody because I knew people would laugh at me. So I sort of snuck around and got some pictures and got a resume together and, of course, lied and said I did all kinds of things I didn't do.”
“As one of my creative writing professors once said, there are only seven plots. What makes those plots different is how you handle them, your voice, your style, and your way of thinking. Thatâ€™s all. People can mimic your style, but they can never achieve your unique point of view.”
“I pray every day for all who are suffering in Iraq. Please join me.”
“We have to be honest, we have to be truthful and speak to the one dirty secret in American life, and that is racism.”

Source : 1993 In US News and World Report, 19 Apr.
“The primordial fire of reality is going to burn through the hull of our little ego spaceship, and scatter us like stars.”
“The Internet doesn't change everything. It doesn't change supply and demand. It doesn't magically allow you to build businesses by turning investors' money into operating expenses indefinitely. The money always runs out eventually.. the Internet doesn't change that, as we have seen.”
“I'm the youngest of six kids, and when a you're living in such a big family, you never really become an adult, and I'm so happy about that. At my 34, I think, "Even if I end up becoming a dad or something down the road, I don't think I'm ever going to be an adult. I'll just be a kid raising a kid.".”
“In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.”

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